The shortlist for the Firecracker Awards is the perfect indie reading list.

The shortlist for the Firecracker Awards is the perfect indie reading list.

By Katie Yee | June 17, 2020

Watch this 1964 conversation between Chinua Achebe, Lewis Nkosi, and Wole Soyinka.

Watch this 1964 conversation between Chinua Achebe, Lewis Nkosi, and Wole Soyinka.

By Jessie Gaynor | June 17, 2020

Rebecca Solnit: The Slow Road to Sudden Change

Rebecca Solnit: The Slow Road to Sudden Change

On the Decades of Activism That Leads to Historic Change

By Rebecca Solnit | June 17, 2020

Staring At Ourselves: On the Endless Mirrors of Pandemic Life

Staring At Ourselves: On the Endless Mirrors of Pandemic Life

Liesl Schillinger Wonders What Lockdown Has Meant
For Individual Self-Image

By Liesl Schillinger | June 17, 2020

Stacey Abrams on the Urgency of Voter Registration

Stacey Abrams on the Urgency of Voter Registration

And How It Became a Focus of Her Political Career

By Stacey Abrams | June 17, 2020

Life During a Post-Policy Presidency

Life During a Post-Policy Presidency

Steve Benen on Donald Trump's Distaste for Governance

By Steve Benen | June 17, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

In Utter Celebration of Juliet Stevenson's Brilliance as an Audiobook Narrator

By Scott Spencer | June 17, 2020

Robert Walser and Jean Genet's Dreams, Solitude, and Mundane Things

By Moyra Davey | June 17, 2020

Building the Artistic Agenda for an Activist Moment

By Willow Curry | June 17, 2020

Oprah's next book club pick is <em>Deacon King Kong.</em>

Oprah's next book club pick is Deacon King Kong.

By Corinne Segal | June 16, 2020

Booker Prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo on tearing down the statues of slavers.

Booker Prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo on tearing down the statues of slavers.

By Dan Sheehan | June 16, 2020

Defenders of a George Eliot statue had no idea what they were doing and I'm here for it.

Defenders of a George Eliot statue had no idea what they were doing and I'm here for it.

By Aaron Robertson | June 16, 2020

Viet Thanh Nguyen is live-tweeting Spike Lee's new movie today.

Viet Thanh Nguyen is live-tweeting Spike Lee's new movie today.

By Aaron Robertson | June 16, 2020

Kazuo Ishiguro's next novel, <em>Klara and the Sun</em>, is coming in March.

Kazuo Ishiguro's next novel, Klara and the Sun, is coming in March.

By Emily Temple | June 16, 2020

Letter From Houston: Let These Protests Bring Light to America

Letter From Houston: Let These Protests Bring Light to America

Daniel Peña on Black and Brown Voices of Hope

By Daniel Peña | June 16, 2020

Taking Lessons in Solitude from French Cinema

Taking Lessons in Solitude from French Cinema

Sanaë Lemoine on Finding Freedom in Isolation

By Sanaë Lemoine | June 16, 2020

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